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INVITATION TO THE WALTZ-Rosamond Lehmann-Holt ($2). U. S. letters in any department are no longer colonial to Britishers, with the possible exceptions of detective stories and letters-to-the-Times. But while a glaring U. S. dawn silhouets many a crude indigenous growth, England's politely setting sun bathes her literary garden in a relatively classic glow. English readers dislike and distrust such experimenters as James Joyce and David Herbert Lawrence. And many a U. S. reader, Tory if no longer colonial, shares the British dread of untrimmed edges, prefers the clipped formality of more traditional writers...
...Rockville, Md. Married. John Gilbert, 35, film actor; and Virginia Helen Briggs (Virginia Bruce), 21, film actress; in Hollywood. His three earlier wives: Olivia Burwell, Leatrice Joy, Ina Claire. Separated. Sacha Guitry, actor, famed as "the perfect lover"; and Yvonne Printemps, actress; in Paris. Seeking Divorce. Rosamond Pinchot Gaston, niece of Pennsylvania's Governor Gifford Pinchot; from William Gaston, Manhattan lawyer. With her to Reno went her brother Gifford Pinchot II, seeking divorce from Janine Voisin Pinchot, daughter of a French automobile manufacturer...
...ROSAMOND K. BENDER...
...Ethel Vickery starts the day as usual, right, by waking her business-wearied husband Joe with her fatuous Swedish exercises on the floor, and endless personal hygiene in the only bathroom. Rob, their spoiled schoolboy son, lolls in bed turning a hangover into a case of overwork. Rosamond dreams, as far as her knowledge will permit, of violent love at the hands of Wesley, the chauffeur. Only Isabel, the youngest, is up & about, playing in the pools that have unaccountably appeared in the San Andreas canyon's dry streambed. Old Pryor, Ethel's father, is also up-stealing...
...blight; and God (three parts machinery, one part Dix) lends her a helping hand. The finger of water that had unaccountably appeared in the canyon's bed was not for nought. Asleep in a hut up the canyon, where they have gone for lack of houseroom, Cornelia, Rosamond, Isabel are warned by a dog's bark, just in time to watch the moving finger begin to writhe and write...